WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL

As a big secondary school in OCALA, Florida, WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL enrolls 3,022 students from grades 9 through 12, run under MARION. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL sits 192% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 62 schools in MARION (46,349 students total), WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% White, 19% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 120 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 45% of students at WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.7%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that median household earnings sit near $61,010, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Marion County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students), WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: INA A.COLEN ACADEMY, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 13% since 2018, when it stood at 2,681 (now 3,022). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 32% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 25.2:1 today.

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